Of course we'd have to be in his shoes but I might have done the same also. You see cops everyday but never one thats undercover. If someone points a gun at me and says he's a cop, I'm sorry but I'D NEED A LITTLE MORE THEN JUST HIS WORD.
Bell had three choices, back up (which if his car was parked that might not have been an option), run the guy over the maybe get away, or believe the guy and step out of the car and possibly get murdered.
Bell and his friends screwed up big time. So did the cops, they should have announced themselves before Bell got in his car.
I do have one question though, according to the cops Bell's friend was going back to the car to get a gun. Why then did three of them get into the car and start it up?
The simplest explanation is that they got wind of the police investigation at the club and wanted to hightail it out of there before they got arrested.
"Of course we'd have to be in his shoes but I might have done the same also. You see cops everyday but never one thats undercover. If someone points a gun at me and says he's a cop, I'm sorry but I'D NEED A LITTLE MORE THEN JUST HIS WORD."
This is my problem with this situation. I would say the guys who got shot were clearly in the wrong, if the cops had been in uniform.
Seems like a brilliant way to carjack some one, or worse.
I want to believe that the cops were in the right, but as the story stands now, I think they messed up, not that the guys who got shot didn't as well. Stopping to reload seems a bit extreme.
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Ever hear of a drive-by?
If Bell had killed the cop and got away, we'd be arguing over whether, once he was arrested, he was justified in running over the cop or not.
But in this case, he decided to kill the guy in front of him, and having done so the guy had a right to kill him. And it turned out he WAS a cop, so Bell chose wrong.